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My name is Tyler. Fellow madden mobile player. I stream my madden mobile content on YouTube. I’d like to share my thoughts on arena.
arena in madden mobile 22 is very unfair. Starting with the fact that every player only gets 2 arena tickets per day. Anyone that is picking up the game for the first time, has grinded the first two stages of journey and wants to try out the only PvP game mode available in the game at the moment has no chance in winning enough games for the rewards earned after scoring a certain amount of points. The only other way of claiming any tickets is by buying 1 ticket for 100 madden cash. Which is a currency people are trying to use to progress in the game. And get better players. For someone who is not paying money on the game. If you risk playing arena and losing your losing not only the tickets but the madden cash that people have earned through achievements. As a player that has spent hundreds of dollars throughout the years. I want a pvp mode that is fair. And something that people can grind without losing much as far as currency/resources. But also dishes out fair rewards for the people that have won games and have grinded the mode.
my ideas/solutions-
arena tickets being available for arena tokens/league token purchase. 2500 arena tokens will give you a pack of 5 silvers, 1600 tokens will get you an uncommon card. If there was an option to buy an arena ticket (or a certain amount of them) for 250-500 arena/league tokens would make this much more affordable for ftp and p2w players. Making it more fair. And giving ftp players a real chance to compete and earn the full amount of rewards given in the arena game mode. the players in turn would be able to spend the madden cash currency in a place where they can actually use it on there lineups. 100 madden cash doesn’t make a huge difference when you buy 1, but if you buy 10 and only win 6 games you lose 400 madden cash that could have been used for resources in upgrading and progressing through the game faster. I can say as a p2w player I lose games too, Because I’m not a perfect player. So I can only imagine how it feels for someone that has spent no money and wants to just play and get better at the game through pvp game modes. It has to be hard! And considering the few other game modes available now. Once you progress to a certain point there is no way to progress unless you beat a cpu defense that is 1000 ovr Better than you making it nearly impossible to win, or you spend money to improve your team and in turn being able to progress through the modes in that way.
giving players a game mode that is not only competitive but fair is something that the madden mobile community never wanted to lose. Arena in madden mobile 21 was more competitive then madden mobile 22 arena simply because of the fact that ftp players could play arena for nearly free and could also use the auction house to better their teams to be more competitive. Neither of which are available on this game now. We need changes to this fast. Because arena is a fun game mode that everyone enjoys.. and limiting the plays to 2 tickets per day and possibly losing the first 2 games you play is not fun for anyone and it makes everyone not want to play the game. I want ftp players to have a chance to grind for a competitive team, in the state the game is on now and seems to be heading, it seems nearly impossible for those people to ever compete.
for anyone that has taken the time to read this message I thank you and I hope to get some feedback.
Agreed Tyler. Ea needs to make some changes to arena before everyone quits due to boredom. If this stays, what will casual and grinders play? By the way i'm Brent Plays Madden from YT
- EA_Blueberry4 years ago
Community Admin
@tylere2511 @drtydozen13
Want to let you know this post will be forwarded over to the Community Manager and your feedback was fantastic. If you missed yesterday's stream he devoted a large part of the segment to arena and how the team is going to be reviewing it's current model. I am posting it here below if you're interesting in listening to it.
I completely understand your perspective on the fairness and how if you only get a couple attempts a day, only to lose, it's just not the best experience. This post already is one of the hotter ones in this forum since launch and can be a great resource for the team with suggestions. Keep them coming.- 4 years ago
@EA_Blueberry How come in the beginning I was earning 500 arena coins per victory and now it's only 100? Is that because I've completed the Arena ladder or because of a change. 500 is worth grinding for, 100 really isn't.
- hawskee4 years agoHero
@Leighton3737 wrote:@EA_Blueberry How come in the beginning I was earning 500 arena coins per victory and now it's only 100? Is that because I've completed the Arena ladder or because of a change. 500 is worth grinding for, 100 really isn't.
They decided to reduce the amount of Arena Coins it gave out per win from 500 to 100 as you said. Can't really speak for an exact reasoning, but suppose they deemed 500 Coins per win to allow for more progression than they had anticipated it would.
- 4 years ago
@EA_Blueberry I can say on behalf of the community, we thank you for taking the time to make this change. Again, I think arena has been one of the most popular if not the most popular game mode in madden mobile. We want to play! I would love to share some of my other thoughts. I’ll be sure to do so. And I personally thank you for taking the time to read through it.
- 4 years ago
@EA_Blueberry Instead of having overall rewards, just extend the Hall of Fame tier to reward something every 100 or 200 pts or so. Then people aren't trying to grind to get into a top 50 with thousands of players. If they grind they get additional hof reward bonuses.
Another option is to do the same thing as NBA 2K Mobile and group everyone in arena by overall power? That way you're only playing similar teams and those teams are able to earn rewards based on their overall power. They also keep the groups to 250 players max, not wide open.
- 4 years ago@EA_Blueberry Is there an update on when we could see some arena changes? As far as tickets and rewards. I’m getting pretty fed up at this point that no moves have been made. I can only think that other players have become fed up as well. This arena is not fun at all. The gameplay when your down OVR is so heavily weighted on the higher OVR there is almost no chance in winning down 200 ovr. On top of that arena is not free to play. We earn 100 madden cash per day from daily goals. THATS IT. You are gonna force people to use that 100 on 1 ticket just to lose to someone in arena. why hasn’t this been fixed. We need answers. As you can see this post has blown up with comments and XPs becuase WE WANT CHANGES! This is absolutely rediculous.